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Facebook had two big announcements this week that show the company’s wildly divergent takes on the nature of privacy. our announcement is that the company is encouraging new users
to initially share only with their “friends” rather than with the
general public, the previous default. And for existing users, the
company plans to break out the old “privacy dinosaur”
to do a “ check-up” to remind people of how they’re sharing. Facebook
employees say that using an extinct creature as a symbol for privacy
isn’t subtle messaging, but simply an icon to which their users respond
well. Meanwhile, Facebook’s second announcement indicated just how
comfortable they think their users are in sharing every little thing
happening in their lives. Facebook is rolling out a new feature
for its smartphone app that can turn on users’ microphones and listen
to what’s happening around them to identify songs playing or television
being watched. The pay-off for users in allowing Facebo…

she had less than $5 cash with her when she filed for bankruptcy two
years ago, but Tuesday, a Merritt Island woman held a giant novelty
check for more than $200 million in lottery winnings.
Federal
court documents show Robyn Ann Collier's personal property on April 30,
2012 included $4.73 "cash on hand." In February this year, her boyfriend
was laid off from his job at a boat-building company, according to
their attorney, David Presnick.
But in March, Collier bought a
Mega Millions lottery ticket at a Sunoco gas station on South Courtenay
Parkway on Merritt Island, according to a release. She and her
boyfriend, Raymond Moyer, had the winning numbers.
"We didn't know
we had won until the next morning when the numbers were on the news,"
Collier said in a release. "I paused the TV and ran to get the ticket to
double check the numbers and when I realized they all matched I jumped
off the couch in excitement and told Raymond we had won."
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